noun. In civil law, the ownership of a thing, as opposed to a mere life interest, to an equitable right, to a merely possessory right, or to a right against a particular person.

noun. The right of the feudal lord in land, as distinguished from that of his vassal.

noun. The right of the landlord in land, as distinguished from that of his tenant.

"In some cases, God infuses the artificial property-relations that we call dominium with sufficient grace to make them generally equivalent to prelapsarian dominium."

dominium directum  dominium utile